Frederick the Great. A Military Life
60 THE SILESIAN WARS, 1740-5 together with the neighing of horses, made a concert of sound that was calculated to inspire anybod ...
61 THE SILESIAN WARS, 1740-5 study it is scarcely possible to do more than describe the character of the succeeding events. The ...
62 THE SILESIAN WARS, 1740-5 neaged in a disorderly hand-to-hand combat, swirling about like a swarm of bees. Two battalions of ...
63 THE SILESIAN WARS, 1740-5 still dangerously placed, for its inferiority in numbers to the Austrian horse (6,000 against 7,000 ...
64 THE SILESIAN WARS, 1740-5 behind a dangerous-looking gap which yawned in the first line of infantry, between the regiment of ...
65 THE SILESIAN WARS, 1740-5 military education of the king and his troops was still incomplete, they had shown for the first ti ...
66 THE SILESIAN WARS, 1740-5 Frederick then had the trophies set up in his room while all the kettle-drummers continued to thund ...
67 THE SILESIAN WARS, 1740-5 exhausting completely all the supplies and fodder in the area of Bohemia adjacent to our borders. W ...
68 THE SILESIAN WARS, 1740-5 so afraid of their men deserting that they dare not place their pickets any distance into the count ...
69 THE SILESIAN WARS, 1740-5 battalions of musketeers, fifteen companies of grenadiers, thirty squadrons of cuirassiers and drag ...
70 THE SILESIAN WARS, 1740-5 the march with sword in hand. (Henckel von Donnersmarck, 1858, I, parti, 127-8) Frederick directed ...
71 THE SILESIAN WARS, 1740-5 the crudest sort. 'You are pigs', he used to say, 'and when I come into your camp it stinks to high ...
72 THE SILESIAN WARS, 1740-5 been engaged, this was the most bitterly contested' (PC 2002). In the principes Gtniraux of 1748 he ...
73 THE SILESIAN WARS, 1740-5 territory of Upper Lusatia, which was more than fifty miles further to the west and offered a more ...
74 THE SILESIAN WARS, 1740-5 6 000 Austrians under Griinne had in fact already accomplished a union near Dresden. It would be so ...
THE SILESIAN WARS. 174Q-5 75 command, in the same way as those of monarch and writer ... He ran after a universal reputation' (V ...
CHAPTER THREE The Armed Camp, 1745-56 'It is splendid to have acquired some glory, but we should be much at fault if we slipped ...
THE ARMED CAMP, 174S-56 77 edges that made up the manuscript of Les Principes Giniraux de la Guerre appliques d la Tactique et d ...
78 THE ARMED CAMP, 1745-56 flanked in this way, may be beaten by 30,000, because the issue is decided so quickly' (Oeuvres, XXVI ...
THE ARMED CAMP, 174S-56 79 Generals von der Infanterie, and the corresponding Instruction fur die Major-Generals von der Cavalle ...
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